Men just get in my way.
“Ladies and gentlemen, Elizabeth Keen.
And deal with it she does.
Credit: Will Hart/NBC
So what kind of womancouldtake down four men and disappear without a trace?
We’re about to find outright alongside her, at that.
RUIN
The episode’s cold open is, in a word, fantastic.
“Trust me, pain is good,” her PT says.
“Pain says your body’s still working.”
So that’s what we’re doing, then.
But going away can only get you so far in the life of Elizabeth Keen.
As Liz draws her gun and goes to check his pulse, he grabs her wrist.
Come when you’re free to.
That note is the only thing that keeps me at all calm throughout what comes next.
And speaking of sleeves, the man most eager to make Liz feel comfortable is bleeding through his jacket.
He asks if there’s a “Mr. “There was once,” Lizzie tells Bill.
“Didn’t work out.”
And Collin’s all,You’re being paranoid, Grace.COLLIN, ITRUSTEDYOU!
INEVERTRUSTED YOU, BILL!
So Lizzie goes to check on her ward and finds him awake.
“Not friends,” he tells her.
“They’ll kill you too.”
Now, for our first Raymond Reddington sighting of the new year.
Well,kind of.
He says that she’s running away from her problems, when she should be facing them.
So Red asks one more thing: “Don’t just go off and hide in the dark.
Wherever you go, look for some light.”
He says Collin found another ranger and told him to come back here to the cabin.
But first…she casually flips the DisposAll switch and the electricity suddenly goes out.
Men justget in my way.”
So f you,Bill!
When she goes to cock her gun, the bullets have been emptied.
But there’s a beeping coming from Collin’s jacket that belongs to a radio.
“Hey Billy, you there?”
Suddenly, Bill realizes she’s onto him.
“It doesn’t end well for you, Grace.”
And there’s his fatal mistake.
“You’re dead,” Bill says from the cabin.
May I say Booyah?
Elizabeth slams the door shut and throws a lighter down the chimney.
“From one professional to another, you’re pretty good.”
“Who’s running?
I told you I’m here tofight.”
(RIP Big Kate and Little Kate.)
They ask the hardware store owner who he thinks she could be.
“A ghost,” he responds.
“Life’s full of ‘em.
And there she is: Elizabeth Keen.
And I’m glad it did.
I love Red, but I honestly didn’t miss him in this hour.
This was a great episode for Elizabeth… Man theyreallygot Agnes out of the way this time, huh?
No, that’snota story I know…until now, that is.
